Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Kilkeeran (Kilmaine By., Kilmainebeg Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkeeran (Kilmaine By., Kilmainebeg Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55619, -9.16662
- SMR number
- MA121-062003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At a tower house (SL121-062----). Lavelle (1994, 110, no. 717) records 'The low remains of field banks and walls to the E, S, SW, and W survive of a possible associated medieval village.'
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 December
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.